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1. How To Get Started As A Nurse Writer

   rxrunner replied to Elizabeth Hanes's topic in Entrepreneurs

   Beth, This is a timely post, I'm a pharmacist who teaches at a nursing school. I'm at AWP in Los Angeles this weekend (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) with 12,000 other writers and I'll share my own writing path as a reply to those who ...

2. What is better to start off with? CNA, Pharmacy Tech or Phlebotomy?

   rxrunner replied to ellelove's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I think pharmacy tech has the most opportunities to move into a job you might actually stay with for quite a while as well now that they do Med Rec in hospitals.

3. Is there an easy way memorizing drug names?

   rxrunner replied to mariamawit's topic in Student Assist

   I put up a 70 minute video with the Over the Counter meds that makes it easier to learn the RX ones. It might help for kinesthetic learners or for international students.

4. Is Pharmacy Tech Training Useful?

   rxrunner replied to Herbal's topic in General Nursing

   I teach in a Pharm Tech program and we have many pre-nursing students get their Pharm Tech certification while they are on the wait list. They say it really helps with pharmacology and medications, but also that they have a good understanding of how ...

5. Thinking about leaving nursing school

   rxrunner replied to Student1713's topic in General Students

   There's never a good time to do nursing school and there's never a good time to have kids! I can tell you that my sister in law got married just after nursing school and it's like she played a country music record backwards, she was so happy again, j...

6. Is there an easy way memorizing drug names?

   rxrunner replied to mariamawit's topic in Student Assist

   There are a few errors in there that I want to respectfully correct.my comments are in parenthesis. -ase = thrombolytic (-ase means enzyme, while all thrombolytics end in -ase, that doesn't mean all drugs that end in -ase are thrombolytics, i.e. be ...

7. Pharmacology - best way to learn

   rxrunner replied to ArrowRN's topic in Student Assist

   I have taught pharmacology at a nursing school for six years and I understand your frustration. It's something called the "Curse of Knowledge" where an instructor can't understand why a student doesn't get it, because they have been teaching so long....

8. RN program missing pharmacology!!!!!

   rxrunner replied to sewinnett's topic in General Students

   You can find a lot of pharmacology information online. I put up 8 videos for my students, thought the Drug Names Decoded book will be gone this fall, I wrote another one called "A Little Pharmacology Paperback". If you learn the drug names, you are i...

9. How should I study for pharmacology? How did you or are you -studying for pharm?

   rxrunner replied to RescueNinja2013's topic in LPN-RN

   I created 8 free videos on drug pronunciation that you can listen to on YouTube for free just type in Drug Names Decoded. I just finished writing the next edition of the book that goes with it called "A Little Pharmacology Paperback", it's really mor...